MAI-Thinking-1 (microsoft.ai) AI

Microsoft introduced MAI-Thinking-1, describing it as a medium-sized AI reasoning model built on enterprise-grade, clean licensed data and trained without distillation from third-party models. The company says it performs strongly on software engineering benchmarks (matching Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro) and shows high mathematical reasoning scores (including AIME results), and that the model is optimized for enterprise use with features like a 256k token context window. MAI-Thinking-1 is available in private preview on Microsoft Foundry, with public preview planned for Microsoft’s MAI Playground.